Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1937, Page 12

BAIL BE FORFEITED IN TAYLOR'S CASE Bondsman Loses $2,000 as Murder Case Suspect Fails to Appear. OPPORTUNITY GRANTED TO RECOVER CASH Court Enabled to Entertain Mo- tion to Set Aside Order if Accused Returns. Juastice Daniel W. O'Donoghue of District Court today ordered forfeited the $2,000 bail in the case of Albert Taylor, colored, accused of second- degree murder and two liquor law vio- lations. Taylor has been a fugitive for more than a year. Action by the jurist Thursday, set- ting aside a 30-day continuance he had granted, drew a strong statement yesterday from United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett which laid full re- sponsibility for the continuance to the Judge and denied the District attor- ney's office was negligent in falling to reveal the facts of the case. In setting aside the continuance of Thursday, when he ordered the bonds- man, Louis Weinstein, to produce Taylor in court today, Justice O'Don- oghue said he had not been informed that the charge involved was murder, that there had been several prior con- tinuances and that the defendant had been a fugitive for more than a year. Statement By Garneit. Garnett stated that Justice O'Don- oghue granted a continuance in his chambers without seeking information of the District attorney’s office. At Weinstein's request, Justice O'Donoghue agreed to keep the court term open for a month so that if ‘Weinstein produced Taylor in that time, the oourt could entertain a mo- tion to set aside the forfeit. Justice O'Donoghue said such a motion ‘would have to come up before another Judge because this is his last day in criminal court. Me added he had granted similar motions in other eases in the past. Irving Goldstein, attorney for Wein- stein, sought this morning to have Justice O'Donoghue permit the bonds- man to pay the $2,000 worth of bonds into the registry of the court rather than to declare a forfeiture, but the Judge refused. Procedure ' Seen Equitable. Assistant United States Attorney Roger Robb said he felt the suggested procedure would be equitable. “We can't try $2.000,” Robb said. “We would like to have the man produced.” Inquiring whether there was any precedent here for such prooedure, Justice O'Donoghue was informed by both Robb and Goldstein that there was not. “This case already has been con- tinued quite a number of times,” Justice O'Donoghue said. “The court will not establish a precedent of de- positing money in the registry of the oourt. * * * The law is that when the bondsman does not produce the de- fendant, the bond must be forfeited. Ample notice has been given the bondsman in this case. I. therefore, declare the bond forfeited in the murder case.” The murder bond was only $1,000. The jurist then inquired whether the two liquor cases pending against -Tay- lor ever had been set for trial. Reobb Preduces Records. Robb produced records showing Tay- lor had pleaded not guilty to one of the charges September 26, 1935, and to the other July 10, 1935. He ex- hibited a letter written by Garnett to the bondsman notifying him that the two liquor cases had been set for trial April 26 last and that if Taylor was not produced, steps would be taken to forfeit the bond. “Do you make a motion that these liquor case bonds also be forfeited?” Justice O’'Donoghue inquired of Robb. “I do,” Robb replied, and the judge ordered the forfeiture. Liguor Case Bonds. ‘The bond in each of the liquor cases was $500, raising the total forfeiture to $2,000. Taylor was indicted in September, 1935, on s second-degree murder oharge growing out of the death July 5. 1935, of Anne E. Briscoe, colored, 400 block of K street, who was killed by s truck earrying liquor off which ‘Taylor is alleged to have leaped while #t was In motion. The truck was being pursued by Internal Revenue Agent James W. Rogers. P. H. FITZGERALD, AUDITOR, EXPIRES Became Ill of Pneumonia While on Trip in South—Funeral Monday. Patrick Henry PitsGerald, 45, of 2335 Fortieth street, traveling auditor for the Fruit Growers Express Co., died last night of pneumonia in Gar- fleld Hospital. He became ill about 8 week ago while on & trip in the Bouth, Mr. PFitaGerald was s World War Veteran, serving overseas with the Bngineer Corps of the 1st Division. He was graduated in law here from Oolumbus University and was & mem- ber of the District bar. He was & native of Holyoke, Mass. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Lucllle K. FitaGerald, and two sons, Patrick Henry FitsGerald, jr. and For the urban soldiers in the C. M. T. C. outfit at Fort George G. Meade, Md., the 66th Infantry yesterday showed off its light tanks. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Here is some “rough ground driving.” SLAUGHTER HOUSE CONFERENCE DUE Interior Officials Plan to Meet as Gobel Firm Goes Ahead. As Interior Department officials made plans for an early conference to discuss the proposed erection of the Adolf Gobel Co. siaughter house in Benning, D. Edward Clark, counsel for Gobel, said today that arrange- ments were being rushed to start con- struction work next week. It was the decision of the Gobel firm to go ahead with its plans to build immediately. now that the anti- nuisance bill is effectively blocked in Congress, that prompted Secretary Ickes and Howard A. Gray, P. W. A. director of housing, to summon a con- ference of interested officials and rep- resentatives of various groups. In- ability of District officials to do any- thing further to prevent erection of the slaughter house was another factor that must be taken into consideration. Due to the absence of several who will attend the conference no definite date has been set. It will be held probably Tuesday or Wednesday. By that time, it was sald, the Turner Oonstruction Co. of New York will be able to begin its preparations. Pride in Plant Seen. Clarke announced on behalf of the company that all specifications for the plant will be fully met and pre- dicted it will become one of which the National Oapital will be “proud.” Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal, Miss Harlean James, executive secre- tary of the American Planning and Clvic Association; Charles F. Consaul, vice chairman of the Committee of One Hundred on the National Capi- tal, and others will attend the eon- ference at the Interior Department. Meanwhile, Col. Dan I Sultan, En- gineer Commissioner, pointed out that the District ean do nothing more to keep the Gobel plant from being erected. “Our only eoncern now, as I see it is the olose supervision of operations of the plant after it has commenced activities and see that they adhere atrictly 10 health regulations of the District,” he said. “If it ever be- comes & public nuisance, the District, of course, can go to court about it and endeavor to close it.” Award Mwst Be Automatic. Provided the Gobel Co. conforms to all the requirements for an operating license, Ool. Suitan said that would have to be awarded automatically. From then on responsibility would rest with the Health Department. An operating license for a slaughter house would have to be renewed an- nually. Col. Sultan reiterated his determina- tion to join in demand for an “en- abling act at the next session which would have the effect of taking dis- cretionary authority from the Zoning Commission, of which he is also a member, and give the regulations leg- islative force. “This should have been done long ago,” he said. FIVE MEN ARRESTED IN NUMBERS RAID Freed Under Bonds of $1,500 Each After Police Visit Tenth Street Southeast. Five men were free under $1,500 bond each today after a raid in which police arrested them and confiseated s large quantity of numbers alips at 217-A Tenth street southeast. The men were listed as Marous P. Gostolow, 35, of the 1600 biock of A street southeast; Robert L. Noland, 36, Alexandris; Frank Morrison, 50, colored, 200 block of Tenth street southeast; Charles F. Morrison, colored, 700 block of Sixth street northeast, and Thomas Morrison, eol- ored, 200 Dblock of Tenth street southeast. Detective Bergt. George C. Deyoe of the vice aquad led the raid. The defendants were charged with operating & lottery. They waived preliminary hearing before United States OCommissioner Needham Turnage and were held to the grand Jury on $1,500 bond each. Gerald Hurley FitsGerald. He also leaves two brothers and four sisters who lve in Holyoke. Puneral services will be held at 10 am. Monday in 8t. Thomas the Apostle’s Catholic Church, following brief servicts at Chambers funeral home, 1400 Chapin street. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery. —e FIGHTS COLLUSIVE BIDS The Treasury yesterday announced an attempt to stamp out alleged “col- lusive bidding” by firms seeking Gov- D. C. MAN BADLY HURT IN FAIRFAX COLLISION By & Bafl Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 —Henry Beach, 21, of 1235 Wisconsin avenue, ‘Washington, was seriously injured ‘Thursday night when the car in which he was & passenger collided with an- other on a curve on the Fairfax road, ©C. | Peinado, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1937. O'DONOGHUE RULES Rolling Forts Go Through Paces at 50 Miles an Hour in Fort-Meade Tank Show Happy to emerge from their lumbering steel forts are these tankmen. Left to right: Corp. W. H. Stratton, Co. I; Pvt. John Martin, driver for Co. A, and ergt. R. J. Close, Co. A. Showing its speed. This little monster is no town car for comfort, but it can hit the dusty road for 50 miles an hour if necessary. ~—Star Staff Photos. U.S. HELP SOUGHT INRELIEF CRISIS D. C. Acts to Get Surplus Federal Food and Clothing. Efforts %o secure surplus food snd elothing from the Federal Government to supplement the relief budgets of destitute District. citizens and offset the reduction of cash allotment or- dered by Congress were being made today by Miss Alice Hill, director of the public assistance division of the Board of Public Welfare, Cuts in relief checks were made necessary when Congress reduced the District's relief budget for the cur- rent fiscal year $135000 below the amount appropristed last year, Miss Hill explained. Checks for the last half of July, which were sent out Thursday, were the first to be cut, Miss Hill said. Since then, bewildered relief clients have swamped the Community Chest and other social service agencies with appeals for help. Elwood Street, director of public welfare, said the action of Congress left the District with no alternative but to cut approximately $11.000 a month from the funds distributed to 10.000 destitute unemploybles. Delay in enacting the appropriations bill forced the public assistance divi- sion 1o send out checks for the first half of July on the basis of last year's budget, Miss Hill said. As a result, she explained, it was necessary to take the full monthly deduction from the checks sent out for the last half of the month. She aaid she believed that next month the deductions will be made more equitably. In some instances, the deductions were as high as 30 per cent while in other cases no cuts at all were made, Miss Hill said. POST OFFICE ROOFS SEEN 'GYRO PORTS Mail Would Be Transferred to Planes Crossing Country in Few Hours. By the Associmed Press. Airmail officials talked hopefully to- day of using post office roofs as auto- 8YTO ports, the 'gyros to transfer mail to stratosphere planes which could croes the continent in a few hours. The House Post Office Committee approved this week a bill by Repre- sentative Haines, Democrat, of Penn- sylvanis. authorising & $100,000 ap- propriation for such experiments to speed up airmail delivery. S8upt. Charles P. Graddick of the postal air service said post offices at Chicago and Philadelphia already are suitable for autogyro landings and take-offs. Part of the $100,000 prob- bly will be used to continue experi~ ments along this line, he added. ‘The advantage of pick-up devices still is unproved, Graddick said, be- cause although they speed up mail schedules they make passenger service impossible. SPANISH CONSULS HERE HONOR LOYALIST DEAD Diplomats From All Parts of Country to Attend Civil War Anniversary Rites. . Trom all over the country eonsuls of the Spanish government gathered in Washington today to pay honor to the Loyalist dead in Spain’s year-old eivil war. Embassy officials said the consuls and representatives of 30 Spanish and American organisations which have ‘been active in their support of the gov- ernmental eause will attend a recep- tion tonight. Enrique Carlos de las Casa is host of the reception and the gathering of consuls, which includes Miguel Pisarro, stationed at San PFrancisco; Lamarro Bartolome Queralt, from Detroit; Jose Gibernau, from Galvesion; Juan from Philadelphis; Juan Jimenes, from Tamps, and Dr. Luis Careags Echevarris, acting consul gen- eral in New York, who is dean of Span- ish oconsuls in this country. BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in the band stand at 7 o’clock tonight. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, sssistant. March, “Italis Glovinessa” Popular numbers, “There's 8till s Pew of Us Left”. Burns “Ciflo de Habana” (Havans Meaven) . .__.._______ -----Dost (Requested.) Valsette, “Peggy O'Neil,” Charlotte Blank PFinale, “March Lenoir”_ ________ “The Blar-Spangied Basner.” ' Ex-Soldier, Wrestler Claims To Be Worst Radio Announcer But Cal Farley’s Title- in-Reverse Doesn’t Hurt Business. Cal Farley of the 6th Engineers, 3rd Division, A. E. P.—here for the eighteenth annual reupion of his old outfit, known as “The Rock of the Marne'—clalms to be “The worst radio announcer in the world!" Former welterweight wrestling cham- pion of the A. E. I, a title won at the interallied games at Paris in 1919, Cal Farley gave up athletics to go into radio, among other things, and now brags about championship in reverse. Personal friend of such champions or near-champions as Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpentier, Cal is determined to uphold his own title—at all eost. “I figure there’s a lot of distinction in being the worst radio announcer in the world, and admitting it.” Cal said yesterday after he had shaken hands with 500-odd buddies who back up his contention about being the worst radio announcer in captivity. Cal broadcasts from Station KGNC in Amarillo, Tex,, a station owned and operated by the celebrated journalist, Gene Howe. And this station, by some freak of broadcasting, hits into most of the territory where the 3rd Division men live: New Mexico, the Dakotas, Colorado, Kanses, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho and Utah. Brags About 1t. “Just can't get on an East-bound wave,” Cal explains. 8o all my bud- dies hear me out in the West, and the Southwest and write in to tell me how lousy I am—as & radio announcer, y'understand!” “And you actually admit you are terrible?” “Admit it? T brag about jci” Tarley figures it this way: “Most of the radio announcers think they are good—when they are terrible. All of them want to be tops. Me? I'm origi- nal. I want to be the worst . . . And, believe me, that's an ambition . . . And s job . .. Just think how many there are in the field . . .” Terrible a8 he is—on the air—Cal | says he has perfected s tchnique— and he recommends it for the improve- ment of radio: “I talk fast and use a lot of slang - . . Hotcha stuff . . . And the national networks, when they get wise to themselves, will make their announcers do the same thing, instead of trying to talk s0 meticulously . . . That's the word . . , They're s0 precise they're painful Consider their work when they're broadcasting foot ball games. They say a team is ‘pean-al-i-sed' when they mean ‘pen-al-ized’ What this country needs is not so much a good S-cent cigar as & rough-and- ready radio announcer . .. And I'm i Wrestied Joe Turner Here. Cal Farley flew 1,700 miles from his adopted home in Texas 1o attend the Teunion of the Society of the 3rd Division. Though most of the boys went sight-seeing yesterday, rub- ber-necking did not entice Cal. soldiered here. Cal | and their wives and daughters Joined Also, he wrestied |in a general dance. CAL FARLEY. —Star Staff Photo. here—back in 1917. His opponent | was Joe Turner, now the Capital’s big muscle and mat man. They met in | the old Bijou Theater—and Joe won; but Cal was only a boy. When Cal went, overseas with the 3rd Division, he got & new lease on life, 30 he says. Came back, started to play professional base ball, wrestled in & match or two, and finally entered the tire business down in Amarillo. With a small capital, Cal took over a bankrupt shop, got himself booked as s radio announcer, did sports. and told all about the tire business. Today Cal has seven shops instead of one, elis all sorts of household goods along with tires, and puts on a davlight radio show of his own each day at 12:45 p.m. in his show rooms. “We have anywhere from 450 to 500 | in the audience—to listen to me. the | world'’s worst radio announcer.” he | says, “and they like it. They like it because I talk the language of the | American people—and we're all Ameri- cans down there in Texas.” Cal, Minnesota born. is the best booster Texas ever had—so his pals say. Today Cal Farley and his buddies of the 3rd Division expect to have a rollicking good time winding up their affairs—before the departure for home. They laid & wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at 11:45 this morning. In the afternoon, business meeting and the election of officers. In the evening. the annual banquet. Then, farewell to Washington. At a dinner of the regiments. held last night at Wardman Park Hotel, & battle-torn flag of the 6th Engi- neers was presented to Col. E. L. Daley, D. 8. M, former commander as a token of the 3d Division Engi- Bloom gave the flag to his old chief 85 & token of the Third Division Engi- neers’ respect for their “fighting com- mander.” Col. Daley said he would probably lend the famous flag to West Point, his alma mater. After the dinner, the society saw motion pictures of the 3d Division in action on the Argonne front, where they routed five crack German regi- ments. Later, the men of the Third G-MEN SEIZE PAYNE, ESCAPED BANDIT Agents Surprise Him at Indiana Farm of Relative After Two-Week Hunt. Rewben Payne, ex-convict, who es- oaped from police at Summer Shade, Ky., two weeks ago after & gun battle, was in Federal custody todsy at Louisville, Ky., charged with bank robbery, the Pederal Bureau of In- ‘vestigation announced. Payne was arrested yesterday at the farm of & relative near Delphi, Ind. F. B. I agents had traced him there from the scene of the hold-up of the Bank of Summer Shade June 29. Payne is slieged to have held up the bank with two revolvers while two companions waited i3 a car. When the bandit left the bank he was met by local police officers, at whom he emptied both guns before fleeing into & woods. The accom- plices were arrested in the car. According to J. Edgar Hoover, di- rector of the F'. B. I, Payne was not armed when agents surprised him at the farm, and he offered no resist- ance. A revolver cartridge was found in his pocket. Denying implication in the robbery, Payne waived removal proceedings and was taken immediately to Louis- ville for arraignment. He has served twe terms in prison for grand larceny and obstructing justice. D. C. Youth Wins Award. John W. Psulger, 2838 Chesapeake street, a student at Culver Military School, will receive a certificate of eligibility for commission in the Off- cers’ Reserve Corps on completion of his course at the R. O. T. C. camp, Port Knox, Ky, Col. T. F. McNeill, commander of the eamp, has an- nounced. A COMDR. DENFELD MADE SENIOR AIDE| Comdr. Roscoe E. Schuirmann, Relieved of Post, to Head Destroyer Unit. Comdr. Louis K. Denfeld, U. 8. N., 18 the new senior aide to Admiral Wil- liam D. Leahy, chief of naval opera- tions, the Navy Department said to- day. He relieves Comdr. Roscoe E. Schuirmann, who has left Washing- ton for duty as commander of De- stroyer Division 5 of the Scouting Force. Comdr. Schuirmann served as sec- Tetary of the General Board, aided in drafting the London naval treaty and was considered an expert on all the recent naval treaties to which the United States was a party. Dur- ing. the World War he served in sub- marines and later served here in the Office of Naval Intelligence from 1922 to 1924 and’ again in 1927-1930. Comdr. Denfeld. was born April 13, 1891, in Westboro, Mass. He formerly served in Washington as aide to the chief of the Bureau of Navi- gation in 1929 to 1931. He returned to Washington in 1933 ‘and was on duty in the Buresu of Navigation. In 1935 he was commander of Destroyer Division 11 of the Battle Porce. STORE OUTING SET A base ball game between a girls’ team and a boys’ team, tennis, swim- ming and dancing are on the program for employes of the William Hahn Shoe Oo., who will hold their second annual outing. tomorrow at Chapel Point, Md. A bus caravan will leave the main store, at Seventh and K strests, to- morrow morning for the resort. CRANDALL WEALTH SHRUNK 0 $620 $6,000,000 Fortune Now | Consists of $500 Ring, $50 Watch and Clothes. The fortune of Harry M. Crandall, Washington's pioneer moving pic- ture theater magnate, who once was reputed worth more than $6,000,000, spparently had shrunk to simost nothing when he committed suicide last February, District Oourt records showed today. A petition for letters of adminis- tration filed yesterday by Crandall's widow listed his estate as consisting of a $500 diamond ring, a gold watch and chain valued at $50, clothing valued at 825 and office furniture valued at $75. Mrs. Crandall said she had been unable to find some stock her husband had owned, but was ad- vised that the shares now had no value. Crandall was found desd from illuminating gas in a downtown ho- tel room on February 26. He left a note to “the newspaper boys’ as- | secting thst he took hix life because “I'm despondent and miss my thea- ters, oh, 30 much.” He was 60 years old. Crandall's rhain of more than a acore of downtown and neighborhood movie theaters was taken over by Warner Bros. in 1929. He long had brooded over the disaster to his Knickerbocker Theater, which col- lapsed during a snowstorm on Janu- ary 28, 1922, killing 98 persons. His widow, Mrs. Catherine Ellen Crandall, asked in the petition filed vesterday that their son-in-law, John J. Payette. general manager of the Warner Bros. theaters in this area, be appointed administrator of the meager estate. VOTE BY CLEANERS SET FOR MONDAY Labor Board to Determine Who | Will Be Bargaining Rep- Tesentatives. Employes of 11 Washington clean- ing and dyeing establishments will ballot Monday to determine their rep- resentatives for collective bargaining purposes, the National Labor Rela- tions Board announced today. This will be the first consent election held in the District, it was said. The question to be submitted to the approximately 400 employes will be whether they wish to be repre- sented by the Laundry Workers, Cleaners and Dyers Union, Local No. 187. The election will be held at the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School from 7 am. to 7 p.m. under the super- vision of Bennet F. Schauffler, regional director of the Labor Board at Balti- more. - It was announced that the employ- ers have agreed to bargain collectively with the union if it polls & majority. The 11 plants involved are Aristo Cleaners & Dyers, Economy Cleaners, Federal Cleaners & Dyers, Inc.; Globe Dry Cleaners & Dyers, Inc.; Master Cleaners & Dyers, Inc.; Needles' Wholesale Cleaners & Dyers, Premier Cleaners & Dyers, Inc.; Regsl Clean- ers & Dyers, Inc.; Rubenstein Clean- ing & Dyeing Co., Vanity Dry Clean- ing & Dyeing Co. and Vogue Cleaners. Employes in these plants returned to work recently after a strike which Iasted more than a week. S SRR FATALITY PRESSES TRAFFIC LIGHT DRIVE Acute Southeast Need Again Is Brought to Attention of Commissioners. Again citing the acute need of s traffic light at the intersection of Fifth street, North Carolina and Pennsyl- vania avenues southeast, and pointing out that a fatal accident occurred there last week, the Southeast Business Men’s Association has sent a communi- oation to the District Commissioners asking that its request for this light be considered. ‘The latter stated that in the past the association had called this condi- tion to the Commissioners’ attention, but the only reply was that “s lack of funds” prevented installation of the light. However, the organisation said, money was available fcs trafic lights in the Northwest section at lees dan- gerous corners. Capt. Joseph C. Morgan, commander of the fifth police precinct and an honorary member of the association, is supporting the business men in their request. Records at his precinct show 21 per- sons had been fatally injured on Penn- sylvania avenue southeast in the last six years, and that 24 persons had been injured at the Pifth street intersection alone since 1931, “ STATE RESTS CASE IN BONDING TRIAL Defense Continues Tuesday. Charges Against 2 Ex- Policemen Dismissed. B> 2 S1aff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md,, July 17. —Trial of seven men on charges of conspiracy in connection with an al- leged bonding racket for defrauding Washington motorists will be resumed Tuesday, after the State rested its case suddenly yesterday and obtained dismissal of charges against two of the defendants. State's Attorney Alan Bowie asked that charges be dismissed against Howard Slater and Maurice Hampton, former Prince Georges County police- men. Bowie explained that witnesses which the State had expected to, pro- duce against the two defendants could not be brought to court. The judges then suggested that the two defendants in question leave the court room if they so desired. Slater and Hampton were brought to trisl with Herbert J. Moffat, Hyattsville justice of the peace; Elmer Pum- phrey, Suitland bondsman, and for- mer County Policemen Albert An- derson, Arthur Brown, Warren Peake, Claude A. Reese and Frank Bell, former desk clerk at the Hyattsville station, Alleged Bribery Evidence Fails. Bowie was unsuccessful in his ef- forts to bring out testimony as to an alleged bribery attempt on s wit- ness, Charles Hamilton, colored, of the 1400 block of T street. The State introduced Detective Jake Wolfe of the Washington auto- mobile squad in an effort to show that he had arresied a man later charged with attempting to bribe Hamilton not to come to trial. The defense, however, objected to Wolfe's testimony as to how he wait- ed in a closet in Hamilton's apart- ment and heard & colored man come in and talk about the case. The judges sustained the objectian. Wolfe left the stand without testify- ing to any extent sbout the alleged bribery case. Another Held in D. C. Several weeks ago the detective ar- rested Harry McH. Braxion, colored, of Lakeland, Md, on & charge of at- tempted bribery. Braxton is being held for the District of Columbia grand jury on a charge of attempted bribery. Efforts by State's ttorney Bowie to bring Braxton as a witness before the court proved futile. John 8. White, Hyattsville attor- ney, took the stand yesterday after- noon to explain how he happened to represent Woodrow Brice, colored, who was arrested in Hyattsville on a charge of driving at more than 60 miles an hour. White said that he had been asked to take the case by Attorney James F. Hughes, & former assistant to the United States attorney in the Dis- trict. White explained to the jury that Hughes had told him Brice would lose his driving permit and therefore be unable to earn & living if he was convicted of driving at more than 60 miles an hour, Character Witnesses Heard. ‘When the prosecution rested its case yesterday afternoon the defense began putting character witnesses on the stand. More than a dosen promi- nent busineas men of Prince Georges County testified as to the reputation of the defendants. State's Attorney Bowie said he had asked for s dismissal only of the in- dictments under which Slater and Hampton were on trial. He would not discuss possible prosecution of the two former policemen under any of the 30 indictments returned last December following an investigation instituted by the Keystone Automobile Club. OHIO DIVORCE IS WON BY MRS. FARNSWORTH Decree Granted om Ground For- mer Navy Officer Was Not Free From First Wife. Mrs. Catherine B. Farnsworth, 41, was divorced in Cincinnati yesterday from John 8. Farnsworth, former Navy officer, now in prison on charges in- volving conspiracy to sell naval secrets to Japan. B The decree was granted on grounds that Farnsworth married before s decree granting freedom from his first wife was made final, according to the Associated Press. Famsworth, former lieutenant commander, was arraigned before Dis- trict Judge James M. Proctor, and on a plea of nolo contendere—neither admission nor denial—was sentenced to serve from 4 to 12 years. He was sent to Atlanta. gt Helium Found in Brazil. Hellum gas, so valuable for air- ships, is reported to have been found in the State of Parahybs in North Brasll AIR BUREAU T0 FIX; SAFETY LIMITS ON AIRPORT LANDINGS Pilots’ Ultimatum Effects Code Governing Use of Emergency Field. FLYERS CO-OPERATE IN DRAFTING RULES Aviation Underwriters Meanwhile Give 0.K. to Present Facilities Across Potomac. BACKGROUND— " An ultimatum delivered a week ago by airline pilots that they will not fly at Washington Airport un- less conditions which they allege to be dangerous are remedied within 60 days has precipitated greatest crisis in 11 years of local airport agitation. District Airport Commission last Monday published its report, recommending construc- tion of a model airport at Camp Springs, Md. Chairman King of the commission has prepared a bill authorizing the airport a3 @ Federal project. Drafting of a history-making regu- lation which is expected to insure continuation of air transport service in Washington by meeting last week’s “ultimatum” of airline pilots waz be- ing completed today at the Bureau ofy Air Commerce. ‘The new regulation, which probably will be the basis for similar reguls- tions at other obsolescent airports throughout the country as sir trans- port planes grow in size, would set ! up detatled operations minimums for | Washington Airport, prescribing eon- ditions under which pilots will be permitted to land and take off in various types of airliners. The regulation is expected to spec- ify, with Federal authority, conditions under which air transport planes op- |erating to and from Washington { must transfer operations from Wash- ington Airport to the new Bolling | Field, emergency use of which was | authorized yesterday by the War De- partment. Pilots Aid im Draft. Details of the proposed regulation were worked out at a long session be- tween Howard F. Rough, assistant di- rector of air commerce; representa- tives of the National Air Line Pilots Association, and the working trans- | port pilots who operate out of Wash- | ington Airport. The session ended after 7 o'clock last night with the assurance to the pilots that the des tailed plan agreed upon will be put into effect “as soon as possible.” The first “‘emergency” use of Boll- jng Field was made yesterday by an Eastern Air Lines airliner on the coastal run through Washington. Pinding wind conditions at Washing~ ! ton Airport unsuitable for landing on { the main 4.200-foot runway, the crew decided, en short notice, to put in st Bolling Feld as an alternative to canceling the stop here. Capt. ‘Walter Wipprecht was in comgmand of the airliner. 2 Arrangements now are being eom- | pleted by the airlines for supples of | ®asoline and oil and other necessities | at Bolling Field, it was announced. While the Commerce Department was completing its study of special regulations to insure safety of opera- tions at the local airport, the Asso- cisted Aviation Underwriters issued & report last night giving the Washing- ton Airport a clean bill of health from |8 safety standpoint. Following an investigation of the local situation, the msurance group declared that the safety record of ‘Washington Airport in the past has been excellent and listed many im- provements which have been made there in the interests of safety. It pointed out that, if there is any ques- tion in the mind of any pilot as to the safety of the airport, it is his privilege and duty at any time to re- fuse to land or take off there. The report closed: “Our group hms for a number of years carried insur- ance on equipment going into and out of Washington Airport aggregating many millions of dollars and eould not tolerate conditions which we eon- sider decidedly dangerous. Our in- vestigation fails to indicate the ne- cessity at this time for changing our Ppast attitude as affects this airport.” ‘The report was signed by Dan Scar- ritt, underwriting manager for the Associated Aviation Underwriters. Regulations Complicated, ‘The proposed regulation agreed upon at the meeting between Rough md' the pilots was described as ‘‘quite complicated.” It stipulates wind ve- locities at various angles with the main runway which are considered safe for landings and take offs by va- rious types of airplanes. Winds sleng the main 4,200-foot runway are eon- sidered safe for the landing or take off of airplanes of any size. With no wind, the long runway may be used safely for landings or take- offs. As the wind increases in ve- locity, the “permissable angle” its di- rection makes with the main runway becomes leas and less. In other words, it was explained, if the wind is light, it may be blowing diagonally across the runway and ladings om the run- way still may be made safely. As the wind becomes stronger, however, the airplane must land headed mare and ‘more directly into the direction from which it is blowing. <Tt is & difficult problem to handle.” Director of Air Commerce Fred D. Fagg, jr. admitied. “I think, how- ever, that we have made decided’ progress and that the emergency phase of the situation now is pretty well in hand.” Behncke Sees Problem Met. David L. Behncke, president of the National Air Line Pilots’ Association, 180 expressed himself as satisfied with progress made on the drafting of the regulation, which is without prece- dent in the history of scheduled air transport regulations. “I do not think,” Behncke said, “ths% it is going to be necessary to put our ultimatum into effect. I believe that under the terms of this regulation, safety requirements at Washington Airport will be adequately met and that, if Bolling Meld is made availe able for emergency use, it will be pos« sible to continue all present air transe port services to and from Washing ton.” ‘The British government, like ou has established publieity offices of thilig owa. A